Why Smoking is Done by Teenagers? (meeting 8)

Why Smoking is Done by Teenagers?

Do you ever see teens smoke cigarettes? Do you know what the reason why they decide to smoke in their early green age? Talking about cigarette and teenagers’ life is one of thing that totally difficult to be separated like a fire and the ash. It has been a giant habit of them, especially for Indonesian teens from the teenagers who are as elementary school students, junior high school students, senior high school students, and even college students that have not been in 18 years old. A million teenagers smoke cigarette freely without thinking that it is illegal or unpermitted for them who actually adultless for doing that. It is extremely not easy to be denied by them. They ignore the bad effects of smoking itself, meanwhile they have known about it clearly from government socialization, their parents, mass media advice and the note pasted on the cigarette packs. So, why they still decide to smoke cigarette without thinking the bad impacts of it? The answers will be discussed in the some paragraphs below in easy way.

According to oxford Advance English Learners Dictionary, teenager is a person who is between 13 and 19 years old which step in maturity. In another hand, smoking is “inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.” Well, if we attract, smoking is something done by many teenager; girls or boys in some reasons.

The first reason why teens suicide smoking cigarette comes from existentialism principe. Yeah, this is one of many reasons that always be found by many research. Data from Muhammad Khalid ( under graduated student of Lampung University) showed almost 3,900 adolescents under 18 years of age in Lampung Province tried their first cigarette, and more than 950 of them became daily smokers because of this wrong principe. That is very ironic case. Teenagers get wrong principe from their friend that by smoking, it will increase their existent as well-known teens in wide society. Their friend will mock them by saying “coward” or “spoiled” if they do not smoke. So, the result, teenagers will be shy and terrible confused. Yes, finally they try to ask their friend’s cigarette for the first inhalation, second inhalation, and the end they will be master of smoker in society for getting achievement as “cool” teen.

Second, many teenagers who are in 13 years or 19 years old are curious to try the taste of cigarette. Yes, as we know, this time is one time that curiosity is completing the teenagers’ feeling. They are KEPO (Knowing Everything by Particular Object) in everything they see, hear, and think. If we mirror it to smoking, thousands teenagers see many smoking smokes happily in their environment; listen that smoking cigarette is like awesome activity that are able to make the smoker fly in the sky and feel the taste of paradise; and think that smoking will make their day more colorful than previous time. So, their curiosities in smoking invite them to join as great cigarette smoker in their community, society or can be in their home when their parents are not in home.

Third, smoking cigarette can be done by many teenagers because of the price of it. Alright, cigarette factories offer the consumers with very cheap price by targeting all society levels; high level such as minister or government; medium level like teacher, businessman; and low level such as farmer, fisherman, and even students or teenagers. So, who is not interested in this cheap price? Yeah, all of society levels will say,” Yes, I am interested smoking cigarette; my pocket money is enough to buy it.”

The fourth factor why teenagers do smoking cigarette is the lack of parents’ control. Teens that totally need motivation and guidance from their parents, sometimes they do not get it maximally because of parent’s business. Parents as the teacher of their children are needed to prevent smoking, but most of them are forget to build moral value to their children that smoking is bad attitude. They are too busy with their work and think that school is enough to give their children moral values and knowledge. So, many children run in smoking to fulfill it.

The last, smoking cigarette will be done by many teenagers who do not know the bad massive effect of it. Study of Mike Jewell on June 2013 that published on Time Magazine, page 09 proves 20% of 100,000 teenagers decided smoking cigarette because they do not know the bad massive impacts of it. Teenagers just know it in another side of it that smoking cigarette is to make good existent (50%), they feel curious about the taste of smoking cigarette (20 %), for running out their pocket money (10%) , lack of parents’ guidance (10%) and etc. (10%). So, the result they are addicted by smoking meanwhile they try to stop this habit.

To conclude up, teenagers must be given moral value and law principe that smoking is an illegal activity for teenagers who are under 18 years old. Parents, teachers, polices and all of societies must monitor them in every activity done. So, smoking cigarette will be avoided by teenagers effectively.